illegal weapon

Did you see on the National News last week that the ATF (Department of Alcohol, Tabacco, and Firearms) was recently caught breaking the law? Apparently gun shop owners, who called in suspicious purchases, were told by ATF to complete the sale and don’t worry about it. The problem is that those sales were illegal. The government claimed they needed to track the weapons to see where they went. They needed to know if the weapons went into Mexico and to drug cartel or what?